



,1 May 2 M. J. MILMOE BLANKFEEDING MECHANISM l2 6 Shams-Sheet 5 m QM A TTORNEYS.

escape of vapors, and drying to a moisture ionterat of substantially twelve percent 10. The process of treatin oat hulls which consists in adding to them t eir own weight of water, eight percent (8%) of their Weight of lime, thoroughly mixing these ingredients, subjecting this mixture to the action of a temperature of substantially 312" Fahr. and a pressure of substantially eighty pounds to the s uare inch for substantially three hours, coo ing the mass without the escape of vapors, drying to a moisture content of substantiall twelve percent (12%), and thereafter grin ing said mass.

11-. The process of treating oat hulls which consists in subjecting them. to the conjoint action of heat, pressure and substantially less than its own weight of water in the resence of lime, said lime being present in :0

0th the solid and the dissolved state.

In witness whereof,-we have hereunto subscribed our names.

CARL s. MINER. GODFREY STEERUP. 

